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Not necessarily. Firefox has its own set of protections and even introduced a new language (Rust) to deal with common security vulnerabilities without sacrifisi
by amenod 6y ago
Not necessarily. Firefox has its own set of protections and even introduced a new language (Rust) to deal with common security vulnerabilities without sacrifising speed.
But the takeaway from this post is more that perfect safety is difficult / impossible to achieve.
- ta1771 6y agoFirefox runs multiple sites in a single process, its sandboxing doesn't come close.
- Drdrdrq 6y agoAfaik, it uses Chromium's sandboxing? That said, safety is about much more than just sandboxing.
- cmeacham98 6y agoThis hasn't been true for years (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis)
- sciurus 6y agoActually, it is still true. Electroloysis split up Firefox into multiple processes, but not every site gets its own process. Work is underway to change this and achieve full site isolation in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but not on this)